seemingly random SATA disk lockup with ICH5: amazing way to ask for more info on the BTS

2007-09-14 Thread Mathieu Roy
interest of Debian. CCed to debian-devel because I'm wondering if this way of handling bug reports (not reading more than 3 words of the reports and then asking for more info and asking to install unstable software) is endorsed by debian developers nowadays. -- Mathieu Roy | Not ev

Re: seemingly random SATA disk lockup with ICH5: amazing way to ask for more info on the BTS

2007-09-14 Thread Mathieu Roy
y for me. Thanks Luk for your attention. -- Mathieu Roy | Not everybody on earth is native english speaker, keep cool :) | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

does moreinfo tag now means Iwontsupportthisversion ? [Was Re: Bug#437344: seemingly random SATA disk lockup with ICH5: amazing way to ask for more info on the BTS]

2007-09-14 Thread Mathieu Roy
rmless to follow such bugs management policy. So I would be interested to know if such policy is endorsed by debian developers in general. If so, then please update the BTS docs about the tags so bugs submitter knows easily that their reports will easily go to limbo unread. In the meantime, I'll pray and hope upstream maintainers of linux will fix this annoying bug. -- Mathieu Roy

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-27 Thread Mathieu Roy
s job to do it too? > To demostrate how much this issue is stupid, i'll make any one here > happy by including the entire upstream changelog in > changelog.Debian.gz, next time i'll build a new upstream. Is this mature? You still did not answer to the question: is it too much

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-27 Thread Mathieu Roy
e changelog is useful. That your choice. But apparently many people disagree with you. You have an easy solution: follow the 4. of the Debian social contract ( http://www.debian.org/social_contract ). -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Bug#194938: ITP: drivel -- A LiveJournal client for the GNOME desktop

2003-05-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
o have and snmpd package. A good description, IHMO, should not be based on assumptions on the popularity of something. Because a description should be meaningful for everyone, shouldn't it? -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://s

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-05-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
em is completely dumb (Apps/Browsers instead of Apps/Net example). It's maybe the case but you should check if it's really the case. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Bug#193497: marked as done (svtools: svsetup uses bashism "echo -e")

2003-06-02 Thread Mathieu Roy
neither. Debian changelog is for Debian changes only: everybody agrees. But a bug filled in Debian BTS fixed upstream is a partially a Debian change. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread Mathieu Roy
sending machine to be bounced in an appropriate manner back to the > sender. I think you missed the point: tagging mails is fine to everybody but not blocking/discarding/bouncing mails (that can be done later, by user, with their procmailrc). So as only tagging will be done, no bandwidth will be

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread Mathieu Roy
Pentium II generation seems completely foolish. I hope I misunderstood your message. > [1] 90% of statistics are made up on the spot. 90% of meaningless statistics, you mean? -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-20 Thread Mathieu Roy
86 (asked by some people on that thread) while providing optimized binaries for people that run recent hardware (asked by some on people on that thread too). -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: favicon resource

2003-06-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
Shouldn't it also be published on the logo page? A favicon is a usual image, you can simply take and resize openlogo-nd-25.png a little (to 48*48 for instance). Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-26 Thread Mathieu Roy
s recently. It > > doesn't hang like NS though. > > There are some sites that still require Netscape 4.77. A good example is > an online banking site here in Belgium, which 'supports' Linux, but you > need to use Netscape to be able to use that site. With the curren

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
;m pretty sure that people using kmail are happy to have a GUI to configure their mail account, for instance. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
better approach, IMHO, is to convince this third party to publicize its code. As a "Linux lover", I'm sure you understand that a reason of the success of this kernel is the way the code is publicized. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Mathieu Roy
ograms should I defer, lest e.g. messages get trunc Maybe a meta-package with appropriate depends could do the job? I must admit that your mail just brought me to notice the presence of mailutils, while I was using mailx too. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Mathieu Roy
this instead: > > apt-get install `apt-cache search gnu | sed 's/ .*//'` Hum, the point is not to fetch every gnu packages but to fetch gnu versions for installed pacakges. Note that with apt-cache search gnu, I get for example: kile, kmrml, mhc, zsh-beta-doc, zsh-doc

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Mathieu Roy
END { print sum }' fichier gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-06-30 Thread Mathieu Roy
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:42:28PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Great, for a default application... > > (ok, man mawk...) > > > > I wonder what makes the following more convenient for a default > > applica

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-01 Thread Mathieu Roy
ault for the next coming debian release. Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Bug#197886: make still broken after 12 days

2003-07-02 Thread Mathieu Roy
d coming up, I may not. At http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=make , I searched with search tool, on bugs, the string "*** Virtual memory exhausted" and it returned me two bugs. The first one is the #3117. As comment for this bug, we have "This bug is a duplicate of Bug #1517, which has been fixed. See that bug report for a patch.". So, maybe the patch you are looking for is there: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=1517&group_id=71 Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Gnome2 in sarge

2003-07-02 Thread Mathieu Roy
correctly understood Daniel Ruoso message, he already knows that, he noticed it. He is apparently asking for an explanation, maybe for a schedule. He is apparently not especially looking for GNOME2 but just a complete GNOME, whatever its version. Will GNOME2 be soon completely available

Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-11 Thread Mathieu Roy
thing... well task-gnu-only will include the Hurd, > won't it? ;) Aside from the joke, we are talking about a package available also for Debian GNU/_Linux_, aren't we? The name task-gnu-only seems misleading. From what we said previously, it should be something like task-gnu-when-it-exists. Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
hen bar happens. Closes: #12345 > > * wrapper script rewritten to not use $$ in tempfile names. Closes: #12345 > > > > Please, everyone remember, a changelog documents *changes*. It's not a tool > > to close bugs automatically. > > This is bullshit. > >

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
ug has been fixed. > > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 17:46, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > This approach surely don't raise the level of Debian. > > Maybe *you* do not care of the details about the bug you reported. But > > a Debian developer is entitled, normally, to provide informati

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-29 Thread Mathieu Roy
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:18, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > We've gone through this many times already. Upstream changes should > > > not be documented in the Debian changelog, even if they fix bugs in > > > th

Re: "non-free" software included in contrib

2003-08-31 Thread Mathieu Roy
& dpkg -i satan_1.1.1-18.deb would you like to include that satan-installer script in contrib? It's almost how works flashplugin-nonfree. http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/flashplugin-nonfree.html So I do not agree that "Contrib is a ok place for installers". While basically these installer are free software, it's a little bit hypocritical to claim that these package contains free software. Finally, someone who install the contrib flashplugin-nonfree get on his computer a non-free software, possibly without even noticing it, because he never seen a dependancy against a package in non-free. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: "non-free" software included in contrib

2003-08-31 Thread Mathieu Roy
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > Em Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:48:46 +0200, Pierre Machard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:23:40PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > [...] > > > So I do not agree that &qu

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: "non-free" software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread Mathieu Roy
ous reason why some proprietary software get a "installer" package in contrib instead of a debian package in non-free? For instance, why the non-free flashplayer does not get a true debian package in non-free, to benefit truly of the debian tools. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: "non-free" software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread Mathieu Roy
Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > Op di 02-09-2003, om 17:46 schreef Mathieu Roy: > > So, is there any obvious reason why some proprietary software get a > > "installer" package in contrib instead of a debian package in > > non-free? For instan

Re: vrms and contrib installers (was: Re: "non-free" software included in contrib)

2003-09-02 Thread Mathieu Roy
g if flashplayer was debian package. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: vrms and contrib installers

2003-09-03 Thread Mathieu Roy
arguments against that as well. It must be possible to remove an installer without removing the installed software. That's not what is asked here. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: [Fwd: False Representation at Google.com]

2003-09-06 Thread Mathieu Roy
ok > > good on the Debian pages. > > Debian is not in the habit of editing its history (mailing list > archives). Don't start down that slope. Unfortunately, this kind of requests are beginning to come up very often. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.col

installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-08 Thread Mathieu Roy
that the issue is so trivial, so I do not think it can be considered as only a wish. Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-08 Thread Mathieu Roy
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Would it be acceptable to fill a bug against each installer that do > > not build a proper debian package when installing non-free software? > > How can they

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-08 Thread Mathieu Roy
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:08:34PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapot? : > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > > Would it be acceptable to

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-09 Thread Mathieu Roy
. > > > Would it be acceptable to fill a bug against each installer that do > > not build a proper debian package when installing non-free software, > > as long as a technical solution is provided? > > I guess so, if the technical solution is correct. Severity so

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-09 Thread Mathieu Roy
Ryan Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:13:59AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:35:45AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > Would it be acceptable to fill a bug against each installer that do > >

Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

2003-09-09 Thread Mathieu Roy
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:17:13AM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapot? : > > > I asked you a question which could be answered quite simply by producing > > > one of those way

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-22 Thread Mathieu Roy
owever, the problematic dotfile was on the server side, not the client side). -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse

2003-09-26 Thread Mathieu Roy
s: If you consider that the changelog should not document the bugs, I suppose that you also think that changelog should not be used to close bugs. Well, in this case it seems consistent and it's your problem. Pretty easy, isn't it? -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: On package description quality

2003-10-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
one > help me, so that I can cite this guideline when filing a bug > against such packages? Check the debian policy. (Well, why do you expect someone else to search thru the documentation what you are looking for?) This page may be helpful, however it's not official. <http://peopl

Re: On package description quality

2003-10-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
phrase is very confusing.) Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: On package description quality

2003-10-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
e he may totally ignore that KDE is using Qt, for instance. Descriptions should only care, I think, about full desktop environment, not toolkit -- defined GUI style instead of libraries. If a software is only GTK+, not _for_ GNOME, there are many reasons to believe that this software does not follow

Re: Bug#215556: ITP: gsysutils -- Set of utilities useful to system administrators

2003-10-16 Thread Mathieu Roy
errors (v2.93.1). * bogomips - Shows the current bogomips rating without rebooting (v1.2). * tofromdos - Converts DOS <-> Unix text files (v1.4). http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/sysutils.html (anyway what's the difference between tofromdos and dos2unix/unix2dos?) Another

Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-16 Thread Mathieu Roy
in this? > > Thanks in advance! Hum, instead of adduser, useradd should be used by the posgresql package. useradd is included in the package passwd, which is "required" package from the "base" section. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-16 Thread Mathieu Roy
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > adduser is neither essential nor required, thus does not need to be > > > installed when instal

Re: Pre-Depends for postgresql

2003-10-16 Thread Mathieu Roy
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:27:42PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:51:33PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > > Hum, instead of adduse

Re: Driver Support for Intel Motherboard

2003-10-20 Thread Mathieu Roy
TED] and debian-devel@lists.debian.org in Cc? -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/

Bug#216954: RFP: wmfrog -- WindowMaker dock app that shows your current weather

2003-10-21 Thread Mathieu Roy
nd the humidity. It works like wmweather (fetching data according to a given metar station) but the output is graphical. -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Homepage:

Re: On linux kernel packaging issue, assuming that user is never right

2003-11-08 Thread Mathieu Roy
chological (a collegue got a faster computer just in the next office), but you cannot assume from that example that this kind of users complains are always for psychological reasons. There may be also real hardware failure/misconfigur

Re: Bug#219719: ITP: gnome-jabber -- A Jabber client for GNOME

2003-11-09 Thread Mathieu Roy
Author. :) The first word must be uncapitalized (there is an insightful message from Branden Robinson in the archives about that). So "instant messager..." would be better. -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Ho

gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
r ii wget1.9-1retrieves files from the web ii xlibs 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody2 X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-16 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- M

Re: Removal of LaTeX2HTML from main

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
f the manual of OCaml and GNU Prolog. > > I don't know what the special features of latex2html are, but > if you tell me what special needs you have I can try to check > if it can be done with hevea. Ca

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
reopen 220363 thanks Anthony Towns a tapoté : > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:00:44AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: >> Package: gimp1.2 >> Version: 1.2.3-2.4 >> Severity: normal >> >> Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install >> gimp1.2-nonf

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > * Mathieu Roy > > | Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install > | gimp1.2-nonfree > > Suggests are ok, Recommends and Depends are not ok. > > If you disagree with this, please discuss it on -

Re: Removal of LaTeX2HTML from main

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Isaac Clerencia) a tapoté : > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:15:19AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: >> Can someone provide a link to a clear explanation about latex2html >> being non-free? > > Read the latest DWN You mean the DWN from yesterday which has not al

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:53, Mathieu Roy wrote: >> > Suggests are ok, Recommends and Depends are not ok. >> > >> > If you disagree with this, please discuss it on -policy, it's not a >> > technica

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
Pierre Machard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:27:35AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> * Mathieu Roy >> >> | Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install >> | gimp1.2-nonfree >> >> Suggests are ok, Rec

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
one normally expects in a GIF. If not, why incitating people to get non-free stuff while you just can provide a Gimp that can save GIF without LZW? -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
Anthony Towns a tapoté : > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:25:23AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: >> reopen 220363 >> thanks > > Please do not abuse the BTS. If you want to discuss it, feel free to do > so, but this is not a bug in the gimp package. If you consider that not b

Re: Bug#220363: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Nov 11, 2003, at 11:00 PM, Mathieu Roy wrote: > >> Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install >> gimp1.2-nonfree > > Discussion aside, this is a nonissue, since the gimp1.2-nonfree > package is g

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Mathieu Roy
tion know to fail to comply to European rules may do. -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleum

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-13 Thread Mathieu Roy
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Mathieu Roy wrote: > >> 2) Do you have any valid proof of what you claim? Please, avoid being >>a liar, this is a very bad attitude. Keep your personal feeling >>out of this mailing-list, I do

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-13 Thread Mathieu Roy
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Mathieu Roy wrote: > >> I think this is a serious bug: the functionality of the free version >> has been lowered to promote patent emcumbered package. > > Patented software isn't really no

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
s packages move to .desktop in the next year, it does not seems to be an awful load of extra work. -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepa

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
If everybody waits the .desktop to be supported by anybody else to start supporting it, it will never be supported in any way. -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ |

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
software? I'm more inclined to think that refusing to collaborate with other people should be motivated by strong divergences on the goal to reach and the method to follow ; not just because it is *possible* to do everything on our own. Are they strong divergences on the g

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
ed in that list? Only one half, I'm afraid. It is not a big surprise that wmaker does not support a standard created more or less when the latest, only bugfixes, release was published. Why do you say that this programs would have no reason to use the .desktop stuff? What reasons would they hav

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-05 Thread Mathieu Roy
side debian), is it? (In fact, only this last sentence is an argument, the other one is a question.) If there are no technical differences between two solutions but one is standard in many places (or going to be standard) and the other is just known at home, which one is the best? -- Mathieu

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-06 Thread Mathieu Roy
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:57:53PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: >> > Some or all of: twm, pdmenu, blackbox, afterstep, fluxbox, gtk-menu, >> > wmaker, fvwm2, enlightenment, etc, consult /etc/menu-methods for more. >> > There

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-06 Thread Mathieu Roy
Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:05:57AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > | Sure. However, I use WindowMaker since several years now, and apart > | from bug fixes, I did not notice real changes over years (the > | changelog does not speak o

Re: Debian packages and freedesktop.org (Gnome, KDE, etc) menu entries

2003-12-06 Thread Mathieu Roy
se for wmaker to consider following freedesktop.org standards in some cases. The point was only: apparently it does not look so dumb to everybody to consider using .desktop even for some of the environment/wm listed by someone previously

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-16 Thread Mathieu Roy
the project initiator, the context, etc... ? -- Mathieu Roy +-+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a n

GNU within the name (Was: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s))

2003-12-18 Thread Mathieu Roy
the GNU part of the name shows that the system used is the system designed/initiated by the GNU project running with the kernel Linux, which is not part of GNU. It does not mean that there are GNU software rarely used elsewhere in the system! (Note: I'm not subscribed

Re: GNU within the name

2003-12-18 Thread Mathieu Roy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:41:46AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: >> You are currently saying that the GNU in GNU/Linux is justified by the >> glibc and not by any other GNU software, because these GNU software >> are common on other unixes. >> &g

Re: GNU within the name

2003-12-18 Thread Mathieu Roy
t not be a > priority in Debian (we are, after all, pro-GPL), but many people would > like having a BSD-style libc for Linux... The glibc is LGPLed, not GPLed. If even LGPL is not enough for someone, I'm

Re: GNU within the name

2003-12-18 Thread Mathieu Roy
Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mathieu Roy wrote: > ... >> When I'm told that a system is running GNU/whatever, I expect first to >> find there GNU coreutils, GNU bash, GNU Emacs, GNU Compiler >> Collection, gzip, GNU awk,GNU make, the GNU Debugger, G

Re: [Internal Projects] Package browser (Was: Debian Color Themes, ...)

2002-12-06 Thread Mathieu Roy
ess, does not even require a web server. It requires only shell utilities and a web browser (as links). But right, it requires cache. Anyway, I'm opened to any suggestions that can improved pdbv. To get an overview http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/pdbv/demo_html/demo_1.2.4_

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Mathieu Roy
for an event which is outside USA seems a good compromise for everybody. People that do not want to go to USA are not forced to, others that do not think USA should be avoided would surely agree to go elsewhere too. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Unofficial projects related with Debian.

2003-05-23 Thread Mathieu Roy
tors. I do not say that's a problem, I don't know, it's up to you. My point is just the fact that the host name is not something completely free (as beer!) Regards, -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Mathieu Roy
l a good/bad people) seems very childish. What's the point in the end, about the meeting? -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
h him until he drops this attitude or until you adopt it. Free software is fascinating: so many people so different contribute to a same project... despite the fact that they think completely differently on other issues. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native e

assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
te: I added bug-coreutils@gnu.org in Cc to let them check this bug. Maybe they can provide informations, instead of reassigning the bug 3 times and closing it silently. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.ph

assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
I've just compiled coreutils 4.5.3 and still got the bug. So the bug is maybe really a kernel issue, but informations when closing bug is still important. And the bug exists, even if it need to be reassigned. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native en

Re: Bug#183858: assign, reassign, close bug without even telling why

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
ip and unknow is not an error message while "uname: invalid option -- x Try `uname --help' for more information." is. Anyway, if we havent got any chance to get a -pi working in a near future, it should be removed from any scripts. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-25 Thread Mathieu Roy
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > On 25 May 2003 12:20:45 +0200, Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a tapoté : > >> On Sunday 25 May 2003 07:27, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> > > Rememb

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Mathieu Roy
; "New upstream closes: #1, #2, #3" implyes an update of the upstream changelog > file so it's worth of checking: listing changes already documented would be > redundant and not so helpful. Not necessarily. People that submitted these bugs will receive by mail a notice with the

Re: debian-exim mailing list?

2003-05-26 Thread Mathieu Roy
#x27;s automated, it's completely harmless. In the worst case, the mailing list will be unused, which does not consume bandwith, harddisk or time - so which is not a real issue. -- Mathieu Roy Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org Not a native english speaker: http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Mathieu Roy
intainers? Ask to the apt-listchanges > developers to add a feature to download bugs report for each bug closed in > changelog. Or maybe the maintainers can just spend 14 seconds to add a comment for each bug closed. Is that so complicated, so awful? This way, users can all be satisfied and

Bug#293572: RFP: lpr-via-http -- a web frontend for lpr queue monitoring and management

2005-02-04 Thread Mathieu Roy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: lpr-via-http Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : https://gna.org/projects/lpr-via-http/ * License : GPL Description : a web frontend for lpr queue monitori

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Mathieu Roy
Sad news. But thanks a lot for all the good work done. No thanks to everybody that uses his power to discourage good will -- I know the deal, it is not very unusual in free software world. It is always very frustrating to be denied access to some boxes while we